Computerworld: Q&A: SCO’s McBride on His Open Letter to the Linux Community

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Todd R. Weiss
Sep 12, 2003

[ Thanks to David for this link.
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“On Tuesday, Darl McBride, CEO and president of Unix vendor The
SCO Group Inc., released an open letter offering to talk about the
issues separating his company and the open-source and Linux
communities. In an interview with Computerworld yesterday, McBride
explained why he wrote the letter and what he expects to
accomplish…

“When you wrote the letter, did you envision it as a a
peace offering to the open-source community or is that too strong
an image?
Yes, it is an olive branch. We want to
understand how we can move forward together here. Both sides are
entrenched in their positions. This could be a 15-year knockdown,
drag-out type of fight. At another level, if there’s a way of
resolving the differences so we move along peacefully in a shorter
term that gets resolved, we’re all for that…”


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